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Amazon fires: How can the inferno be stopped?

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has ruled out accepting a G7 offer of $22m in aid to fight fires in the Amazon rainforest unless he gets an apology from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Macron said France would not ratify a huge trade deal with South American nations unless Brazil did more to fight fires in the Amazon.

Is this an issue of national sovereignty or the interests of humanity?

Mark Urban reports.

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